indurate
English
Pronunciation
Verb
indurate (third-person singular simple present indurates, present participle indurating, simple past and past participle indurated)
- To harden or to grow hard.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 2, [1]
- The ear, small and shapely, the arch of the foot, the curve in mouth and nostril, even the indurated hand dyed to the orange-tawny of the toucan's bill, a hand telling alike of the halyards and tar-bucket […] all this strangely indicated a lineage in direct contradiction to his lot.
- 1970, Oliver Sacks, Migraine, London: Picador, 1995, Chapter 1, p. 15,
- The superficial temporal artery (or arteries) may become exquisitely tender to the touch and visibly indurated.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 2, [1]
- To make callous or unfeeling.
- 1801, Helen Maria Williams, Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French ..., Volume 1
- Oh, no ! it is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart — the revolutionary impulse is too swift to admit of a pause at the sight of individual misery — the tempest is too loud to hear the wailings of the wretch that perishes beneath its billows […]
- 1801, Helen Maria Williams, Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French ..., Volume 1
- To inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.
- 1992, Saul Bellow, "Winter in Tuscany" in It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future, New York: Viking, 1994, p. 257,
- The afternoon was not particularly warm: our noses and eyes were running; his were dry. He was evidently indurated against natural hardships.
- 1992, Saul Bellow, "Winter in Tuscany" in It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future, New York: Viking, 1994, p. 257,
Synonyms
- inure
- (harden): See also Thesaurus:harden
- (strengthen): See also Thesaurus:strengthen
Derived terms
Translations
To harden
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To make callous or unfeeling
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Adjective
indurate (comparative more indurate, superlative most indurate)
- Hardened, obstinate, unfeeling, callous.
- The doctor removed a lot of indurate skin from his wound.
- 1528 (originally published, the wording in the quotation is from a later version), William Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christian Man
- Now are they indurate and tough as Pharaoh, and will not bow unto any right way or order.
References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “indurate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
indurate
- inflection of indurare:
Etymology 2
Participle
indurate f pl
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) indūrāte